Friday, November 22, 2024
11/22/2024
New Jersey Health Information Technology Extension Center Service Area: Statewide Proposal Proposer: New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102 PI: Dr. Donald H. Sebastian Tel/Fax: (973) 596-8449/6056 E-mail:sebastian@njit.edu New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) commits to create a statewide Health Information Technology Extension Center (NJ-HITEC) on behalf of the New Jersey and with the support of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. NJ-HITEC???s mission is to assist New Jersey???s health care providers achieve meaningful use of health information technology through its program of outreach, consultation and user support. The Center has an aggressive goal of reaching all of the state???s 18,000 primary care providers with the message of improved healthcare quality and reduced cost of operation that begins with the adoption of Electronic Medical Record systems (EMR). Roughly one-third of those providers serve the state???s at-risk patients in the large urban regions of Newark, Trenton, Camden and Atlantic City. They operate in diverse environments that include: individual or small group primary care providers, FQHCs, community clinics, and critical access hospitals. These providers will be the primary target for grant assisted services supporting them through full EMR adoption by end of program funding. NJ-HITEC staff offer client practices ???one-stop??? shopping, coordinating the delivery of services and technology from public and private sources. This ???brokered service??? organizational model is based upon NJIT???s decades of experience in running statewide extension efforts resulting in nearly $200 million in cost savings, new or retained sales and 3,000 jobs created or retained. It leverages existing public and private sector partners and eliminates the need for large administrative overhead. Using a phased approach that begins with statewide Electronic Medical Record system awareness training and brings client providers through assessment, system selection, installation and ongoing user training, the Center will move New Jersey???s primary care practitioners to achieve meaningful use. The program plan is designed to launch an intensive conversion effort in the early years of funding. The longer-term program, beyond four-year federal support, will shift to continuous enhancement of the digitized practice, and improved integration across all stakeholders in the healthcare delivery system. New Jersey???s 19 community colleges will act as exclusive partners for the delivery of outreach and awareness training throughout the state. Those efforts are complemented by NJIT???s Division of Continuing and Professional Education. In the past decade alone, CPE has trained over 71,600 professionals associated with about 600 companies and each year educates roughly 9,000 students in degree programs and another 7,000 professionals, many of them through our eLearning credit and non-credit courses. NJ-HITEC has a strong working partnership with and is endorsed by the New Jersey Hospital Association, representing 107 covering all of New Jersey. Additionally, the state???s major hospital systems have all signed on to work with NJ-HITEC to access their primary care provider network and to supply technical support for magnifying their own provider EMR transformation programs. They also collaborate to form the four major Health Information Exchanges in the state. NJ-HITEC will work directly with the HIEs to ensure interoperability of provider systems. A partnership has also been established with a public advocacy group to conduct patient awareness, and RHITEC proposers in several other states.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
